हर मां-बाप चाहते हैं कि उनका बच्चा पढ़ाई-लिखाई में अच्छे नंबर लाए। पर अगर आपका बच्चा अच्छे नंबर नहीं ला पाता तो अापके अपने बच्चों का डाटना नहीं चाहिएं। एेसा करने से वह सोचते है कि वह अकेले है अौर वच्चें अपना आत्मविश्वास खो देते है। बच्चे हमेशा वही करते हैं जो अाप उनके सामने करते या फिर बोलते हैं। …
Read More »Longest Live Streamed Festival: Astro breaks record
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – March 28, 2016 – Television content provider Astro Ulagam has set the World Record for the “Longest Live Streamed Festival” with 55 hours of non-stop live-streaming of this year’s Hindu Thaipusam festival. Photo: Malaysian TV sets Guinness Record for the “Longest Live Streamed Festival” with 55 hours of live-streaming Thaipusam. The Guinness World Records world record …
Read More »एक नजर – शराफत अली खान
जनाजे की तैयारी हो रही थी। छोटी बहू की लाश रातभर हवेली के अंदर नवाब मियां के कमरे में ही बर्फ पर रखी हुई थी। रातभर जागने से औरतों और मर्दों के चेहरे पर सुस्ती और उदासी छाई हुई थी। रातभर दूरदराज से लोग आतेजाते रहे और दुख जताने का सिलसिला चलता रहा। पूरी हवेली मानो गम में डूबी हुई …
Read More »Hindutva: Exploring the Idea of Hindu Nationalism – Jyotirmaya Sharma
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India Pages: 240 Price: Rs.299 What was the common thread that united Hindu nationalists Dayananda Saraswati, Sri Aurobindo, Swami Vivekananda and Vinayak Damodar Savarkar? With their thinking, discourse and writings, all four influenced new thinking among Hindus that eventually paved the way for the Hindutva as we know today. Savarkar was no doubt the most vocal votary …
Read More »You Are The Key – Apurva Chamaria and Gaurav Kakkar
Publisher: Bloomsbury Pages: 256 Price: Rs.399 Aiming to cope with the changing world, sales methodology has evolved across the world. This book delves into the pros and cons of social selling and its various aspects and provides a holistic view of the subject. Saying that the laws of microeconomics find a direct correlation between demand and supply, the authors add: …
Read More »Don’t Diet! – Kavita Devgan
Publisher: Jaico Books Pages: 242 Price: Rs.350 Often, individuals on the heavy side of the weighing scale follow every theory to the ‘T’, try every tactic to lose all that food love which converts into fat, increasing not just the waist line but the perfect chin, the once slender shapely thighs and firm buttocks. Tending to all these ‘red alert’ …
Read More »Travails of Bangdu – K.K. Sinha
Translator: Sudip Talukdar Publisher: Matrix Pages: 159 Price: Rs.150 “Travails of Bangdu” pulls no punches in unmasking the crooked politics behind bonded labour, which condemns a segment of adivasis to a subhuman existence. An unapologetic feudal system does its best to keep the pernicious practice alive, long after independence and in brazen defiance of the law which proclaims equality for …
Read More »The Silk Roads: A New History of the World – Peter Frankopan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Pages: 636 Price: Rs.799 Writing a comprehensive history of the world was a lot easier in the times when there was not so much history and just a part of the world was known, and the focus mainly on the role of one’s homeland in civilisation’s advance. In our age, the range of any such effort will be …
Read More »On Intelligence: The history of espionage and the secret world – John Hughes-Wilson
Publisher: Constable/Hachette India Pages: 510 Price: Rs.599 Wars have been won – and lost – based on how enemy intelligence is obtained, interpreted and acted upon. And if thrilling stories on edge-of-the-seat espionage keeps you hooked, then this book will offer you a peep into a world of mystery and intrigue. Right from the biblical period to the present day, …
Read More »Jaani – Punjabi Lyricist
He doesn’t look for quiet corners, neither does he force himself to sit near a flowing river, and he definitely doesn’t need the pitter-patter of raindrops over his flat, to feel inspired. Punjabi music industry’s popular lyricist Jaani finds his words in the hustle-bustle of life. This young fellow from Gidderbaha, Punjab has given songs like Paani, Ek Taara, Jaguar, …
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